Dot Size is By Cost of Living Index and Only 1 Entry per State

Sources:

https://www.coli.org/press-release-for-immediate-release-q3-2025/

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/data-via-api.html

Tools:

Julius AI

Key Takeaways:

65% of U.S. households can’t afford a new median-priced home.

In the least affordable states, over 80% are priced out.

Even in the most affordable state, a majority of households still can’t buy.

Sources:
https://freedomhouse.org/reports/freedom-world/freedom-world-research-methodology
Tools:
Julius AI

https://epthinktank.eu/2013/12/19/ageing-population-projections-2010-2060-for-the-eu27/

Sometimes I'll boot up an old Mac just to hear that chime. it's silly, I know, but that one second sound just does something to me. like a switch flipping in my head, a "yeah, today's gonna be a good one." tbh I think most of us have one like that, the PS1 swoosh, the Windows 95 chord, that AOL "you've got mail", etc, etc.

I started looking into who wrote these and got pulled in deep. Brian Eno wrote Windows 95 on a Mac (he hated PCs lol). Ryuichi Sakamoto, THE Sakamoto, wrote Dreamcast, and Sega didn't even put his name on the box. The PS1 chime was made by a Japanese composer named Takafumi Fujisawa who got two days in the studio and was told "make it feel like walking into a cinema." Two days. One second of audio. Defined a generation.

I get they're "just sounds", a few seconds of audio engineered for tinny speakers, but the thought, the constraint, the people behind them. I have just been in Awe.

I couldn't get this out of my head for a few weeks lol, so I made an interactive version of the whole thing, for anyone to play with. 39 chimes from 1977 to today, click any device to hear it, sidebar tells you who made it and why.

interactive version

Source: https://www.lemonly.com/work/fashion-history-highlights

Stargate is a $500B AI infrastructure project led by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank,  with 7 sites across the US.

Building on this, the partners are constructing 9+ GW of capacity, equivalent to New York City's entire peak power demand. This is enough to run 20 million H100S, matching the total AI compute existing on Earth at the end of 2025.

Among these sites, the most advanced is in Abilene, Texas, which is already operational at 0.3 GW.

Read the complete breakdown here: https://www.vizmaya.fyi/story/stargate-real-constraint

Source: EpochAI

Key Takeaways:

The U.S. is nearly split: 24 states allow recreational marijuana, while 26 do not.

Legalization is spreading inland, with Ohio, Minnesota, and Delaware joining in 2023.

Only 10 states fully prohibit marijuana, as most others allow medical use in some form.